NET/MASTER Network Control Language (NCL) Reference Manual

ASSIGN
Verbs
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RANGE=( start , end )
determines the range of variables specified by the ARGS operand. See
“Frequently Occurring Operands,” at the beginning of this section, for more
information.
MDO= variable-name
specifies the name of the target MDO.
MAP= map-name
specifies the name of a map, which can be a user-defined map, to be used by
the MDO. If you omit this operand, the map name of the source MDO is used.
If you omit this operand and there is no source, the content and structure of
the MDO variable is deleted. If the source is not an MDO, the target MDO will
be unmapped.
Note For more information on maps and MDO variables, refer to the NonStop NET/MASTER NCL
Programmer's Guide.
VARS
output-vars-list
specifies which variables are to be used. If too few variables are specified,
data is missing; if too many variables are specified, excess variables are given
no value—they are set to the null string. Multiple variables must be enclosed
in parentheses and separated by commas.
variable*
specifies a set of output variables. See “Frequently Occurring Operands,” at
the beginning of this section, for more information.
You can use the following operands with the VARS= variable * operand:
RANGE, GENERIC, BYNAME, MERGE, and OVERLAY. These operands are
mutually exclusive, and are also mutually exclusive with the input GENERIC
operand that follows the FROM operand. In addition, the last four operands
must comply with the following conditions:
You must use both source and target variables, specifying
VARS= variable * when using the FROM operand.
The variable * variable specifier must have the form & x *, in which x
conforms to the standard NCL variable naming conventions.
A compilation error results if you do not comply with the preceding
conditions.